Social media and defamation law / The Hon Justice Peter Applegarth AM.
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Brisbane : Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2023
Record id:
200905
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Social media.
Social media -- Law and legislation.
Speeches, addresses, etc -- Queensland.
Contents:
What is social media?
How has the law of defamation dealt with other media?
The law's response to new technology
What is different about social media platforms?
The arrival of the internet
Regulation of new technologies
Regulation of social media
Voller's case
Google LLC v Defteros
The issue of publication is fact specific
The public and policy reaction to Voller
Whose domain is it?
The separate issues of publication and innocent dissemination
Problems besetting the concept of publication on social media
Reforms to Australia's defamation laws
Other legislative developments
The federal government's plans to address online misinformation
An international perspective
The architecture of local laws about internet intermediaries' liability for third-party content
How are internet intermediaries different?
The limits on legislation
Encouraging moderation
Potential civil law liability as an incentive to moderate
An enduring problem - to censor or not to censor
Take down orders
Defamatory meaning
Search results and snippets
Hyperlinks
Qualified privilege and public interest defences
Litigation and social media
The difficult question of who is the publisher?
Encouraging moderation - The USA v The rest of the world
A right-wing challenge to self-moderation
Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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The Hon Justice Peter Applegarth AM Supreme Court of Queensland, 'Social media and defamation Law' speech presented to Banco Court Level 3 QEII Courts of Law, 17 August 2023.
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